Fat & breast cancer.Does a low-fat diet low-fat diet A diet low in fats, especially saturated fats, which has a positive effect on arthritis, CA, ASHD, DM, HTN, obesity, and strokes. See Diet, Low-fat snack; Cf Animal fat, High-fat diet. help keep breast cancer from coming back? Only if the tumor tumor: see neoplasm. you had is the kind that doesn't respond to estrogen, says a new study. Researchers assigned as·sign tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs 1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection. 2. more than 2,400 women who had been treated for early-stage breast cancer to either an intervention group (which got advice to eat less fat) or a control group (which got no diet advice). After five years, a cancer recurred in 10 percent of the intervention group and 12 percent of the control group, a difference that wasn't statistically significant. However, when the researchers broke down each group, they found that women who had estrogen-negative tumors were 42 percent less likely to have a relapse if they ate the low-fat diet. In contrast, the diet had no impact on women with tumors whose growth was fueled by estrogen. Weight loss may have played a role in the outcome. Although none of the women were told to lose weight, members of the low-fat group (who consumed about 30 grams of fat each day) lost about six pounds after five years, while the women in the control group (who ate about 50 grams of fat a day) lost only two pounds. What to do: Although this study was inconclusive INCONCLUSIVE. What does not put an end to a thing. Inconclusive presumptions are those which may be overcome by opposing proof; for example, the law presumes that he who possesses personal property is the owner of it, but evidence is allowed to contradict this presumption, and show who is , it's worth cutting back on fats if you have estrogen-negative breast cancer (your oncologist Oncologist A physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer Mentioned in: Retinoblastoma oncologist can tell you). It makes most sense to trim bad (saturated saturated /sat·u·rat·ed/ (sach´ah-rat?ed) 1. denoting a chemical compound that has only single bonds and no double or triple bonds between atoms. 2. unable to hold in solution any more of a given substance. and trans) fats because they raise the risk of heart disease. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 98: 1753, 1767, 2006. |
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